A VIEW FROM THE RED BLUFF ART GALLERY
on Nov 16, 2009 in kneaded eraser 6b pencil john stewart bristol board adpd Red Bluff Art Gallery felt stump portrait graphite stick The other day, I was looking out the front window of The Red Bluff Art Gallery, where I hang out three days a week in the afternoon. I noticed a house way off in the distance that had an interesting fence, so I made a drawing of it. There was lots...

- A Portrait in Pencil -
on Oct 29, 2009 in kneaded eraser 6b pencil john stewart bristol board adpd Red Bluff Art Gallery felt stump portrait graphite stick I did this drawing last week at The Red Bluff Art Gallery from a small color photo. It's of an artist that shows at the gallery. She is close to 90 years and commutes by car from California to an Eastern state, a couple of times a year. Pretty am...

FUN WITH ARTFIRE
on Oct 26, 2009 in etsy art john stewart art fire adpd drawings paintings fire As an artist, or artisan, you can set up a free store on ArtFire.com and sell up to 12 items. They give you a domain name and don't charge any listing fees or sold item fees like eBay does. You can also instantly import your Etsy items if you hap...

MR. FRANK KITCHEN - REVISITED
on Oct 10, 2009 in pastel drawing micron man reading pencil drawing john stewart adpd pastel drawing micron pen old man's face Using the same photo reference, I tried a new type of pastel set. It looks like makeup in shallow wide mouth jars and you apply it with chammy covered plastic palette knives. The board is masonite that is coated with a tinted sandpaper finish that...

~ MR. FRANK KITCHEN ~
on Sep 24, 2009 in pen and ink drawing micron man reading pencil drawing john stewart adpd drawing micron pen old man's face There is an interesting gentleman that comes into The Red Bluff Art Gallery where I hang out 2 or 3 days a week. He always arrives with his wife Daphne and when they come through the door, the room lights up. Frank always says that he is half blind...

~ LEAF SERIES WC ~
on Sep 12, 2009 in watercolor small john stewart leaf series a drawing leaf In the late '90s I was doing a lot of what I called "Leaf Series", small watercolors and I fell back into that mode a couple weeks ago. Here's one of the later ones. ...(please click on the image to see a larger version)...

- DRAWING IN A CLASSICAL MODE -
on Aug 24, 2009 in pen and ink drawing micron man reading john stewart adpd pen and ink drawing micron pen old man's face Every once in awhile I get the urge to sketch or draw in a more classical mode. I sketched this in pen and ink from an old engraving in a book from the early 1800's. It was quickly done and I tried to not over work it. It measures 8.5 x 11 and is...

- I HAVE TO BRAG -
on Aug 15, 2009 in necklaces necklace gold pearls jewelry glass beads silver valerie stewart beaded beads My wife says that she isn't an artist, but the truth is that she can make anything with any object that you can give her. She started making jewelry last month and I created an Etsy.com shop for her creations. She would probably shoot me if she kne...

MONTANA MORRISON - "THE ART SPIRIT"
on Aug 8, 2009 in Red Bluff chicago acrylics adpd montana morrison artist Red Bluff Art Gallery arts oils museum paintings We lost an important artist and friend this week, Montana Morrison. She embodied "The Art Spirit" that Robert Henri wrote about in his 1923 classic. She was a driving force in the arts in Chicago, and then later in our local town of Red Bluff, CA.

RETHINKING A WATERCOLOR
on Aug 2, 2009 in birds national watercolor society butterflies heads creatures cat ghost faces watercolor adpd fantasy charcoal paper fantasy forest This is a watercolor that I did in 1999 and posted on this blog in 2006. Today I pulled it out and decided that the "Fantasy Forest" needed more "Fantasy", so I added some creatures and faces and even a ghost. I put it on my Etsy gallery page HERE...